EUGENE, Ore. — Jarvis R. Givens will be the keynote speaker for LCC's February Black History 365 Speaker Series. The title of his talk: Black Reconstructions: "Archival Assembly and New Histories of American Education," will be presented live in person in building 19 room 226 on February 15th at 12:00pm. A Zoom link is available to accommodate those unable to attend in person.
Dr. Givens is an associate professor of education and African & African American studies at Harvard University. He specializes in the history of education, African American history, and theories of race and power in education. His first book, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (Harvard University Press, 2021), won the 2022 Book Prize from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association, the 2022 History of Education Society Book Award, the 2022 Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the New England American Studies Association, the 2022 Frederic W. Ness Book Award from the American Association of Colleges & Universities, and it was recognized as a finalist for the Museum of African American History's 2022 Stone Book Award. Professor Givens’ second book, School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness, will be published in February 2023 by Beacon Press; and he is currently building the Black Teacher Archive, an online portal that will house digitized records documenting the more than one-hundred-year history of "Colored Teachers Associations." Professor Givens is originally from Compton, California, and currently resides in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
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